Head of the Bight

Head of the Bight
Head of the Bight
	A panorama of Head of the Bight
	Head of the Bight Location in South Australia
Location	South Australia
Coordinates	31°29′36.9018″S 131°9′30.8586″E / 31.493583833°S 131.158571833°E
Type	Bay
Basin countries	Australia

Head of the Bight (also called Head of Bight) is a bay located in South Australia at the most northern extent of the Great Australian Bight.

Flora and fauna

It is one of two locations on Australia's south coast where southern right whales come to calve during their winter migration,^[2]^[3] the other being located off of Point Anne in Western Australia's Fitzgerald River National Park.^[4]^[5]^[6]

The waters within the Head of the Bight are located within the Far West Coast Marine Park.^[7]

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^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 April 2013. Retrieved 5 March 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ http://www.ceduna.net/page.aspx?u=514
^ Reid, Elizabeth; Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies (University of Adelaide) (1996), Whale watchers of the head of the Bight: a 1995 visitor profile and implications for management, Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies, University of Adelaide, ISBN 978-0-86396-439-8
^ Pirzl, Rebecca; Burnell, Stephen R (2005), Population biology of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) at Head of Bight, South Australia in 2004, s.n., retrieved 5 March 2012
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^ "Far West Coast Marine Park Management Plan" (PDF). Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. 2012. p. 26. Retrieved 1 March 2015.

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